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the
Chief
of
Si11Hers~
t
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lifelefs,
though .
fUll .
founding
Cymbals.
3
~
1.
This
confideratton
therefore,
toge–
ther
with
fome others were for
the
mofi:
part,-
as a
Ma~l .on
the head of Pride,
aAd
defire of
vain
Glory : What,- thought
1.,
Ihalll beProud·becaufe I atn a
foundingBrafs?
Is
it
fo much
to
be
a Fiddle!
·H11th
n1t
the
leaft
Creature-that
hAth
Life,
n1ore
of
God
in
it then thefe
.?'
B·efides,
I
knew,
'twas LDve
Jh.ould never die,
.but thefe
.m
oft ccafe
and ,.
va–
ndh:
So
I
conclude~,
a
httle
G,race, a httle
Love,a
little of the
true
Fear of God
is
bet–
ter then
all
thefe
Gifts : Y.ea,
and
I
am
fully
convinced
of ·
it,
that
it
is
poffible
for
Souls
that can
fcarce
give ·
a n1an an Anfwer,
hut
·with
great
confufion·a~
to method,
]fay it
is .
poffible for them to have a thoufand times .
more ·Grace, and fo
to
be more in ·the loTe
and favonr of the
Lord,
then fome who
by
vertue oftne gift
of
Knowledge, can deliver
themfelves like Angels.
302.
Thus therefore
I
came to perceive,
that though gifts in themfelves
\Vere
good
to the thing for
w~ich
they are defigned, to .
w~t,
the E9ification
of
others, yet
en1pty
and
Without power to fave the, Soul of him that
hath then1,
if
they be
11/one:
Neither are
they,
as _fo,
any
fign. ofa .
n:tans
frate to be
happy
bc1ng
only a dtfpenfauon
of
God
to io1ne
of ·
whofe improvement or
non-improvement
they muft when a little love more is over
give
a~
account to him that
is rea,dy
to
judg~
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